Slovakia license plate: SPZ Czechoslovak

Retired 1984 to 1997. Standard plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Ministerstvo vnútra Slovenskej republiky. One of 21 Slovakia license plates.

Slovakia license plate, SPZ Czechoslovak (1984 to 1997), sample ERY 97-18

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL 99-99, for example ERY 97-18 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1984 to 1997. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF

Legal basis and sources

  1. zákon NR SR č. 315/1996 Z. z. as in force from 1 March 1997, prechodné ustanovenia ods. 3 (31 December 2002; motorcycles 31 December 1998) and ods. 5 (strike-off). https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/1996/315/ZZ_1996_315_19970301.pdf
  2. the same statute in a 2005 consolidation, the same paragraph now reading 'vydané pred 1. aprílom 1997 zostávajú v platnosti do 31. decembra 2004'. Diffing the two versions dates the extension. https://www.slov-lex.sk/static/pdf/1996/315/ZZ_1996_315_20050101.pdf
  3. the federal Czechoslovak instrument chain, dated: vyhláška federálního ministerstva vnitra č. 34/1984 Sb., amending vyhláška ministerstva vnitra č. 145/1956 Ú. l., o provozu na silnicích, Částka 6 (4. 4. 1984),... https://www.psp.cz/sqw/sbirka.sqw?cz=34&r=1984

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is sk-spz-czechoslovak. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Slovakia's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/sk \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "sk-spz-czechoslovak")'